Republican Party needs more true heroes like John McCain

Friday

Oct 6, 2017 at 11:22 AMOct 6, 2017 at 11:22 AM

To me, John McCain is truly an American hero and both the nation and the Republican Party could use more like him.

McCain would have been president, but was talked into having the dipsy doodle lady from Alaska as his running mate, a decision that scared away many voters who could not imagine something happening to him and her becoming the leader of the free world. I feel that he would have made a great president: a class act, speaking his mind, good conservative values, yet using common sense and putting the nation ahead of blind political partisanship and pressures from lobbyists.

If he had been president, I bet we wouldn’t have all the KKK and Nazi idiots coming out of the closet. And hopefully, we wouldn’t have so much “our way or no way” tea party and John Birch mentality that is a cancer to the nation’s democratic principles and process.

When I heard that he didn’t support yet another “repeal and replace” bill on the Affordable Care Act, I agreed. I never understood why we didn’t focus on fixing the problem parts of ACA and to do so in a bipartisan fashion. But this “repeal” word seems to be something that the party just can’t get away from. It makes this old white conservative male wonder if it’s not so much the program itself, but more from a resentment that it came from a black Democratic presidency, putting a real wrinkle in some way too white Republican shorts.

And to have someone whose only combat experience is fake WWE wrestling promos and grabbing females by “whatever” bad-mouthing John McCain is pretty pathetic.